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Justine Namayanja - Vegetable Stand Project - Goal = $300

This is the face of a hurt, yet strong woman. This is a woman with a courageous plan

Will you help her reach her goal of building, working, and providing for her children with a vegetable stand?

We need One-Time donations and monthly partners to keep this vital ministry going each month.

​Praise God - this need has been met!

Here she is with her charcoal stand. Thanks to people like you helping us raise support for her, she was able to set-up not one, but two stands. She was able to hire a few local village men to build her stand. She had researched the most needed supplies locally and decided on selling charcoal (how most people cook). She also budgeted well enough to also have a chapati stand set up. She will hire a local cook to run the stand as an employee!! She will help when the charcoal stand isn't as busy.​She has also already inquired of the local schools and will enroll next school year. This gives her time to save up for her own children's school fees and supplies.

Can you see the excitement in her eyes? She is a business owner. She is a woman of integrity that didn't let circumstances send her into a less desirable work that so many women are tempted to enter. She will have an employee!! Praise God!!!!For every woman we get supported, there are 10 more needs we hear about. Please share our ministry with others.Would you like to visit Justine personally?

Namayanja Justine is a 27 year old single mother of 4 kids. 2 girls and 2 boys. The oldest child is 10 years old and the youngest is 5 months. Justine got to know about Heshima through a friend and she started attending our outreaches. She talked to one of us and shared her story but I was too occupied so I wasn’t attentive until God whispered her name in my memory and he wanted me to visit her and see how she is doing5 years ago, her husband traveled to Iraq to look for ‘greener pastures’. After two years, he came back and bought land for his family. Justine was a house wife and her husband was 100% the beard winner in the home. He paid for his children’s school fees and provided all the basic needs. He traveled back to Iraq, made money, came back and built a home for his family. He left his wife pregnant and went back shortly.When he came back a few months later, everything changed. He had gotten himself a second wife. He didn’t come back to Justine’s home. He rented a house somewhere and stayed there with the second woman; he stopped supporting his children and never gave them money for food anymore. All the kids dropped out of school. That is when Justine got to know that she had to do something for her kids to survive. She started digging for her neighbors to earn money (this is a common practice in rural communities in Uganda - where someone with land and a farm will pay someone meager wages to prep soil, dig out root veggies, and help harvest). She borrowed a small piece of land to grow some food for her children, or the kids would go and labor to support their mom to avoid going hungry the whole day.A few months after all this happened, one day she was headed home from the garden and she found her children had been thrown out of the house with all the family's belongings. They were at the door crying. Their father told them to leave his house, to gather with their mother so that he brings in his concubine because he doesn’t want her to rent a house yet he built one. Justine cried and begged her husband to allow them to at least stay in the house for some days until she finds somewhere to put her children. He refused so she decided to go to police.

When she got there, she found the husband had gotten there before her and he alleged a case on her that wasn’t true. Thankfully, the police got to know that he was lying and he was locked in for a month for family negligence and the house keys were returned to Justine. Her husband is out of prison and no one has an idea of his where about.

Justine is living in a lot of fear thinking he will come back anytime and throw them out with a machete. Her children are not in school anymore, food is a problem in their home. She is struggling and telling me this story in a lot of tears. She needs help. She said she wants a vegetable stand to be able to bring food on the table for her children.

First, I prayed for her and asked God to comfort her, give her strength and wisdom to handle everything going on in her life. Then I (our staff) shared about our ministry and what God has called us to do. I told her we are not looking into sponsoring children for now until God says yes, but we can help in any way that God may direct us to. I told her to give me a budget for the vegetable stand and to get some papers signed by the local council to get approved for her project.

Phiona - our staff on the ground - is SO proud of Justine. She immediately took care of all the paperwork involved in participating in a project with Heshima. She exhibits responsibility and laid out her plans for Phiona with great care and thought - she knows which items she wants to carry, ones that have a high demand.

Justine dreams of owning a vegetable stand. This will cost just under 1 million shillings - which is roughly $300. The fantastic news is that there really isn't any nearby in the village - she travels far to our Lumuli community to participate in our devotions. Would you partner with us to make her new business a reality? As always, our projects are considered "Micro-Investments." Each women, after she becomes profitable and can pay for normal expenses, begins to pay back her investment into our community fund, which will go to fund MORE projects for the women.

Would you partner with us? $20? $50? Do you have a Sunday School class that could rally together and raise all $300? We are feating Justine and 7 other projects this fall that we would love to get funded ASAP if at all possible! Please email us at heshimaministries@gmail.com with any questions.

Can you donate $25? Any number is welcome, but if we can get 12 friends to share $25, we are funded!!

Goal!

We will keep you updated here with a percentage of what has been raised! Thank you so much for considering helping her!